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by tapsboy 1480 days ago
This is not an exact answer to your question, but if you run a "simple" website or web application and really want to move to react, choose an easy to use and maintain popular framework like Next.js and host it on a platform like Vercel or Netlify
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Yeah, see, my concern is that I am constantly going to be porting the site over to the developer’s framework du jour. Maybe I am overestimating what a rewrite requires.

I already know what I need the web application to do. It uses Flask, which I understand to be akin to driving a Dodge Caravan, but it gets me place to place. Updating it to Next.js or similar only feels necessary to me when the Dodge needs to be abandoned by the side of the road. For the developer, I am sure it feels like working on a useless piece of junk, but the developer is not the one that has to drive it place to place.